Re: [GIT PULL] Allwinner Device Tree Changes for 5.3

From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>,
	ARM-SoC Maintainers <arm@kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Allwinner Device Tree Changes for 5.3
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:09:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOesGMhBSCnmN2S4yHLMZ2CEefaSFXG4VsegCtFuHEKWcghLEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190625145541.55c4mszwphx4corj@flea>

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:55 PM Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 02:36:30PM +0200, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:32 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Olof,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:41:19AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Please pull the following changes for the next release.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Maxime
> > > > >
> > > > > The following changes since commit a188339ca5a396acc588e5851ed7e19f66b0ebd9:
> > > > >
> > > > >   Linux 5.2-rc1 (2019-05-19 15:47:09 -0700)
> > > > >
> > > > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > > > >
> > > > >   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux.git refs/tags/sunxi-dt-for-5.3-201906210807
> > > >
> > > > You know, there's a timestamp in the tag too, no need to encode it in the name.
> > >
> > > Yeah, I've switched to some tooling to send them instead of doing them
> > > manually, and having a timestamp was the easiest solution to avoid a
> > > collision, but I guess having it down to the minute was a bit
> > > overkill. Do you have any preference on this?
> >
> > Main thing for me is that I can't tell from time timestamps if it's a
> > respin/new version, or a re-stamp, i.e. if it's something I should
> > care about or not.
> >
> > I.e. it doesn't carry any useful signal for the consuming side and is
> > mostly noise.
>
> Ok, so you'd prefer something like <tag>, <tag>-2 if there's multiple,
> subsequent, PR, and <tag>, <tag>-again if the latter replaces the former?

Yeah, that's what a lot of other maintainers do and it's something
that's been working pretty well.

Sometimes they use -v2 at the end for respins, i.e. dt-2-v2 etc. I
recommend deleting respun tags so we don't accidentally merge them (if
we didn't see the follow-up).

-Olof

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